Power metal with balls

[Lies and Perfidy]

So this is a thread for people who like power metal, but hate wussy music. Sound like a contradiction? Sadly, yes, but here is where we find bands that defy that stereotype. I'll start.

Fates Warning–before they turned into a mediocre prog metal wank-party, Fates Warning produced some of the greatest old-school power metal albums known to man. "The Apparition" is THE fucking power metal song. Check out Spectre Within and Awaken the Guardian.

Wuthering Heights–really well done speed/power, despite being named after the second most boring English Literature requirement of all time. They'll occasionally wander off on a keyboard-driven trip through the daisies ("Lament for Lorien"), but songs like "The Road Goes Ever On" and the "Longing for the Woods" trilogy combine an excellent sense of traditional melody and an ability to riff with homicidal intensity. Far From the Madding Crowd pwns thee.

Manticora–OH FUCK YEAH! The best power metal band since Helstar, even since Helloween–epic and loaded with speed metal riffage, with some fucking great vocals. Keyboards used for atmosphere and occasional effects, drums that are fast and heavy without straying into flower metal double-bass overload, solos from hell...you want this, friends and neighbors. Hyperion is one of the best albums of the past five years.

Samples from these bands can be found at their official websites (go to metal-archives for links).

Your turn, folks.

 

[AjDeath]

Can you say oxymoron?

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Way to not read anything I said.

 

[AjDeath]

Way to not read anything I said.

Actually, I did, I just felt like being a douche. My condolences

 

[Under a Stone]

Fates Warning–before they turned into a mediocre prog metal wank-party, Fates Warning produced some of the greatest old-school power metal albums known to man. "The Apparition" is THE fucking power metal song. Check out Spectre Within and Awaken the Guardian.

I’ve recently acquired “Awaken The Guardian” and I absolutely love it. Is there any bands/albums that are in the vain of early Fates Warning?

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Helstar is pretty similar–they even throw in random thrash breaks like FW does in "The Apparition." Check out Remnants of War.

 

[AjDeath]

Helstar is pretty similar–they even throw in random thrash breaks like FW does in "The Apparition." Check out Remnants of War.

I have heard about Fates Warning for a long time but haven't bothered to pick any up because I am not really big on Power metal. Might give them a try.

 

[Reign in Acai]

Yea Pyrus Manticora is damn good. I'm currently reading Hyperion because of these guys. That book is also damn good.

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Shit yes...one of the few sci-fi books that's not only worth reading, but damn near required. You'll probably want the sequel, The Fall of Hyperion, too.

 

[Reign in Acai]

Yea I will be purchasing that one in a couple weeks. What's the endymonia Dan Simmons Books about? I know its a city in Hyperion. But I'm not too sure if it has any relationship at all with the 2 Hyperion novels.

 

[Jean-Pierre]

FUCK, I was literally seconds away from making a thread just like this! DAMN YOU, JEWSPAWN.

No one on this board even knows what the fuck Power Metal is. Listen the Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction:

1. It's Power Fucking Metal. Not this fake modern shit with the flowery double bass, harmless singers, and wanky solos without any riffwork whatsoever.

2. If you don't like it, I don't understand how you can say you're into Metal.


EDIT: AllWithinMyMonster - It is based on the book, but names and places were changed to avoid legal bullshit.

 

[J.]

2. If you don't like it, I don't understand how you can say you're into Metal.

Like this: I'm into metal.

Perhaps it's beyond your understanding, though.

 

[Tool]

I bought Fate's Warning "Disconnected" a little bit ago and it didn't grab my attention at all... It also didn't sound very power-metal-like to me. *shrugs* Maybe I picked up the wrong album.

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

There we go, that's what I'll leech next. Some Jag Panzer.

My options are Decade of the Nail-Spiked Bat, Mechanized Warfare and Thane To the Throne. Which do I want?

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Tool–after four albums, Fates Warning switched singers and became a boring prog-metal band. Night On Brocken, The Spectre Within, Awaken the Guardian and No Exit are the only ones worth buying.

 

[Jean-Pierre]

I bought Fate's Warning "Disconnected" a little bit ago and it didn't grab my attention at all... It also didn't sound very power-metal-like to me. *shrugs* Maybe I picked up the wrong album.

You picked up the wrong fucking album! Holy shit, you couldn't have picked up something worse.

Here's a hint: READ the album name next to the recommended band.

Pyrus: Thane and Decade. Mecahinized Warfare is catchy, but really formulaic.

EDIT: Also to Pyrus: The singer on No Exit was Ray Alder. He was pretty damn good, then got boring along with the rest of the band.

Another Edit: To J: Yeah, Neurosis and The Haunted are Heavy Fucking Metal. Rock on, dude.

 

[Reign in Acai]

There we go, that's what I'll leech next. Some Jag Panzer.

My options are Decade of the Nail-Spiked Bat, Mechanized Warfare and Thane To the Throne. Which do I want?

From what little I have heard from those albums I'd definetaly go with Mechanized Warfare. Reminded me a little of Control Denied. The other 2 albums you mentioned reminded me of something I'd hear off the album "Holy Diver". Go with jean-pierres advice though. He's the jag panzer fanboy

 

[Giles]

Do you think that the ManOWar forums have dozens of threads with similar names to this.

"Wimps and posers leave the hall!" etc etc

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Ray Alder was on No Exit? Shit, I didn't know that. I always thought he was an okay singer...it's the songwriting that got crappy.

Leeching those two Panzer albums as we speak. IT'S POWER METAL GEEK DAY!

 

[J.]

Another Edit: To J: Yeah, Neurosis and The Haunted are Heavy Fucking Metal. Rock on, dude.

Neurosis, I don't consider them metal at all. Their roots are in hardcore.

The Haunted, meh.